tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post8420852099445532137..comments2024-01-06T09:14:53.340-08:00Comments on Dashiell: See you in ChinaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post-42110509807025604742008-08-18T19:38:00.000-07:002008-08-18T19:38:00.000-07:00Excellent post!Excellent post!DEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07266406676643270732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post-17168156632206759582008-08-11T16:58:00.000-07:002008-08-11T16:58:00.000-07:00I don't know if you accept awards but I am giving ...I don't know if you accept awards but I am giving you one for writing kick ass political posts.Life As I Know It Nowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733963455243806298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post-74601623343900964012008-08-10T10:46:00.000-07:002008-08-10T10:46:00.000-07:00Thank you for this distinction. I've revised the s...Thank you for this distinction. I've revised the sentence to say "state capitalist." You probably won't agree with that phrase either, but in my view the "free market" as we know it is a convenient fiction. U.S. capitalism is supported by the state, but not in the same way.Chris Dashiellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14502735579422890467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post-81861441201829241152008-08-09T11:54:00.000-07:002008-08-09T11:54:00.000-07:00Good piece.re: this point:>>>China has an...Good piece.<BR/>re: this point:<BR/>>>>China has an aggressive, fast<BR/>>>>growing capitalist economy.<BR/><BR/>I would have to disagree here. China is not "capitalist." It is following an East Asian model of economics that has been already implemented for decades by the likes of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It's a system that was actually first implemented by the Japanese in the 1930s in Manchuria---and then later implemented in Japan itself after World War II.<BR/><BR/>This is a form of economics in which powerful bureaucrats guide the nation's economy, rather than "market forces."<BR/><BR/>Yes, there are private corporations in China. But they are kept on such a short leash by the government that it blurs the whole concept of "private ownership."<BR/><BR/>China has no intention of ever embracing an American style economic system. That many Americans believe otherwise is a combination of wishful thinking and ignorance.<BR/><BR/>Say what you want to about this economic system, but (as implemented by some nations) it has its good points. Japan, for example, is the most egalitarian nation on earth, with the narrowest gap between rich and poor.<BR/><BR/>The horrible, massive underclass of wretched poverty that is increasingly widespread in the U.S. simply doesn't exist in nations like Japan, Taiwan and South Korea (a fact that has made the East Asian economic model highly appealing to the leaders of nations in that part of the world).Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.com